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How’s my Flattening
Real-time insights monitoring and informing Ontario’s response to COVID-19 containing centralized data and collaborative analytics and is community-driven.
COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group
A comprehensive interactive dashboard to visualize Canadian COVID-19 maps and trends
ICES COVID-19-Dashboard
The ICES dashboard provides an overview of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of individuals tested and confirmed positive for COVID-19 in Ontario. It includes percent positivity for COVID-19 as well as a breakdown of positive cases by FSA. The dashboard is updated on a weekly basis and was created by ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences).
Blog Posts
The 501 Blues: How worried should we be about novel SARS-2 variants?
Over the Christmas break news began to circulate of a novel SARS-2 variant, which had appeared in southern England in September 2021 and which has rapidly become the dominant strain of SARS-2 across England. Particularly worrisome is the fact that this new strain of SARS-2 has a mutation known as N501Y, which is known to […]
Journal of a Plague Year
“Pestilence is so common; there have been as many plagues in the world as wars, and yet both plagues and wars find people equally unprepared. The people of our town were no more guilty than anyone else…Why should they have thought about plague, which negates futures, journeys and debate. They considered themselves free, and no […]
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Black Health Matters Project
The Black Health Matters Project led by Dr. Roberta Timothy is conducting research on how COVID-19 has impacted African/Black individuals and communities, front line health care workers and essential service workers and how systemic/structural violence are barriers to effective prevention, treatment and management of COVID-19 in the African/Black population.
Tailored messaging is crucial to drowning out misinformation.
A storm of anti-science is powering the latest wave of COVID-19 crashing against the world’s shores. It is largely invisible, fed by algorithms and clickbait in alliance with isolation, fear and mistrust.
Science Table
The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the COVID-19pandemic, to inform Ontario’s response.
Age Distribution and Time to Epidemic Recognition for COVID-19
Modelling COVID-19 Importation into Ontario
ONTARIO LOUD – Hydro Rates, COVID Inequality, and the Ontario Deficit
Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi discusses what looking at disaggregated data can tell us about how the COVID-19 pandemic is having an unequal impact across the province.
Is trust in public health guidance eroding amid ‘mixed messages’?
David Fisman in CTV News
Why getting COVID-19 vaccines approved in Canada won’t be ‘overnight solution’ to pandemic
Alison Thompson and Anna Banerji in CBC News
DLSPH Professor Janet Smylie and Lisa Richardson of Temerty Faculty of Medicine on anti-Indigenous discrimination in the medical system.
Racism in the medical system goes far beyond a few bad apples.
DLSPH Professor Peter Jüni answers questions about COVID-19 on CBC’s Ontario Today.
DLSPH Professor Onye Nnorom discusses her study on the experiences of Black physicians.
Navigating the healthcare system in canada can be scary for some. but for people of colour, it’s terrifying.
Is the end of the pandemic near?
Jeff Kwong, of the DLSPH, urges patience following Pfizer vaccine update
James Scott, of the DLSPH, tests masks for market place investigation
CBC “Marketplace” headed to the lab to put masks to the test.
Ross Upshur, of the DLSPH, on vaccines
A long way from lab bench to bedside: Virus experts urge COVID-19 vaccine caution
Premier Ford announces vaccine taskforce
Ontario’s government has officially announced its COVID-19 vaccine taskforce.
What Ontario’s new modelling tells us
Adalsteinn (Steini) Brown, Dean of the DLSPH, with Ashleigh Tuite of DLSPH, Colin Furness of Information and DLPSH and Andrew Morris and Isaac Bogoch of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
Race, Racism and COVID-19
Watch the November 24, 2020, inaugural lecture of the Institute for Pandemics Lecture Series on Health Equity. Focused on racial health inequities in COVID-19 outcomes and highlighting the empirical evidence that has been accumulated thus far, this event explored how advocates and policymakers are taking up the evidence in real-time. The expert panel explored the data and other indicators and examined its implications for using policy and other strategies to dismantle structural, systemic racism.
Structural racism, embodied histories, and COVID-19 in context: lessons from the United States
Additional resources from Dr. Nancy Krieger, the keynote speaker from the Institute for
Pandemics lecture, Race, Racism and COVID-19.
U of T Libraries Map and Data Library: COVID-19 Data Resources
This guide is a collection of data, map and visualization resources and tutorials related to COVID-19. The guide is a living document and will be updated as more resources and tutorials become available.
Toronto Public Health Data
COVID-19: Status of Cases in Toronto
ICES COVID-19-Dashboard
The ICES dashboard provides an overview of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of individuals tested and confirmed positive for COVID-19 in Ontario. It includes percent positivity for COVID-19 as well as a breakdown of positive cases by FSA. The dashboard is updated on a weekly basis and was created by ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences).
COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group
A comprehensive interactive dashboard to visualize Canadian COVID-19 maps and trends
How’s my Flattening
Real-time insights monitoring and informing Ontario’s response to COVID-19 containing centralized data and collaborative analytics and is community-driven.